Handy personal journal script

journal

#!/bin/sh
# journal
# 
# Usage: journal [date]
# 
# Spawn your plain-text $EDITOR open to your diary.
# Journal files are arranged in a simple tree hiearchy by date under ~/Journal/.
# If date is given, it is a date string as understood by GNU date;
# you can say for example,
# journal yesterday
# journal "2 days ago" # to open 2 days ago
# journal "1 week"  # to open a week in the future

if [ ! -z $XAUTHORITY ]; then
  EDITOR="leafpad --jump=-1" # HACK: make sure we go to the end of the line for the journal
fi

DAY=${1:-today}
JOURNAL=~/Journal/`date -d "$DAY" +%Y`/`date -d "$DAY" +%m`/`date -d "$DAY" +%d`.txt

if [ ! -f $JOURNAL ]; then
  cat > $JOURNAL <<EOF
Journal for $(date -d "$DAY" +"%A %B %d, %Y")
------------------------------------------

EOF
fi
 
${EDITOR:-vi} $JOURNAL